On 2026-04-06 Mo 7:39 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 2026-04-05 Su 4:03 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>
>
>>> But do we really have to create a new database and a new tablespace
>>> for these?
>>> Database and tablespace creations are quite heavyweight operations.
>>>
>>> We already have an existing tablespace and an existing database as
>>> part of the
>>> regression tests. Couldn't you make do with those?
>> Didn't do anything about that.
>>
>
> Well, the trouble is that the database test runs a bunch of alter and
> revoke statements on the created database, that we probably don't want
> to persist on the existing regression database. I could see an
> argument for converting this to a TAP test that would only be run
> once, given our current very profligate running of the core regression
> suite. That goes doubly for the tablespace test, which could also
> probably use ALTER TABLESPACE instead of creating a bunch of
> tablespaces and then dropping them.
>
>
>
Here's a patch that converts all these into a single TAP test, and
reduces the number of tablespace creations.
cheers
andrew
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